Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is one of my most favorite days of the year! It's my mom's birthday, so we started out with present and a birthday breakfast for her. Ben and Chase made pumpkin pancakes, which were delicious and we celebrated 53 years of this wonderful lady! The rest of our day was fairly calm, a few last minute errands, and enjoying the snow!

We took Chase down to see the lights at Layton Park, which he really loved! Then we came home and had our traditional candlelight dinner of soup in bread bowls. Chase opened his new Christmas jammies and we did the Nativity story using Chase's finger puppets. He still doesn't really get it, but he thought it was fairly entertaining. Even though he didn't really get what was going on this year with Santa and Christmas, he was picking up on all the excitement and was pretty wired! Here are a few darling pictures of our wild little one with the birthday gal!

He went to bed fairly easily and we enjoyed time with just the adults in the family while Ben and I set up the rest of Chase's Christmas. Having a child has made Christmas so magical again! I could hardly wait for Chase to wake up the next morning!